I’m going to rant again, surprise, surprise. And about what? Warzone of course. Perhaps I should stop playing the game type overall. I know it can be fun, it’s just rare for that to happen for me.
Okay, right now, I’m just letting off some steam from my consistent lose streak that feels nearly unbreakable. I might just play firefight on a loop until my wins equal my losses, and believe me that can take a while, roughly 100 games.
My first complaint and this applies to the game as a whole is that players can no longer vote for their maps anymore which is horrible. If we had the ability to vote on a Warzone map, I’d never choose ARC. NEVER! I have the worst luck with that map and I think it’s the worst designed map, shaped like a U and when all bases are taken, it’s impossible to escape with snipers, vehicles, and heavy weapons being used. Not only that, but the legendary bosses’ location is generally an immediate win for those that have the Garage, similar to Sanctum with the Temple.
Now lately, I feel like I’m helping the enemy team with winning the match and I understand it’s completely my fault. It generally happens when I spawn a good REQ but die quickly before I can really use it, or something else. In the game I just had on Darkstar, Endurance of Will was low on health an most of my allies were either dead or taking a base while half the enemy team was about to finish it off. I spawn a Temple Banshee to rush over and finish it off. On my way, I see a spartan and I try to Banshee bomb, but it misses. As I try to go after the player this way there’s one less to worry about, I get stuck in a corner to where they are. I try to splatter, but it doesn’t work. This part is where it gets confusing and I say WTF to the game. I use the Banshee bomb when they’re close to me, but it does almost no damage or they board me and I used the bomb, but it does nothing. I’ve seen people use the banshee bomb to get rid of their high jackers, hell I pulled it off before, so why?
Another beef I have is generally when I’m about to take a vehicle, but an ally destroys it. As I EMP a Wasp, an ally fires a barrage of Anti-Air Wraith nuclear shots at it, and right when I was about to jump in, it explodes in my face, dealing damage and then the enemy kills me with a headshot. Great…
My last complaint is the Railgun vs the Wasp. One shot against a full health Wasp can kill the pilot, but leave the Wasp alive. This part I don’t get. I understand if the Railgun is eye level or higher than the Wasp, but if the attack comes below, it should just do major damage. To me, whenever I die or do that, I feel like its Kakashi doing the 1000 years of death on Naruto. For those who don’t know what that is, look it up and then you’ll catch my meaning. Anyway, can 343 fix the Wasp, like not die immediately from a Railgun and have it show up more than the Banshee. Seriously, I get more Banshees than Wasps when opening up REQ packs.
I also wish 343 brought back Hornets and Falcons. Those were fun. Maybe for the next game, they can bring those back while introducing new flying vehicles for the Covenant, Prometheans, and the Flood. Imagine a Flood vehicle, like some sort of flying gas bag that drops bombs that don’t immediately kill, but who ever is caught in it takes damage over time, like a area of effect spell, or like the Fusion Grenades from Halo 4. That’d be awesome.
Anyway, rant over. I might stick to Firefight for a while this way I don’t risk breaking my controller, lol.